Seat 7: Ilari Sahamies -- 685,000
Ilari Sahamies is most commonly known as "Ziigmund," a high-stakes Finnish professional poker player known for frequenting the highest games in the world, especially online. Sahamies' specialty is both Pot-Limit Omaha and trash talking, which the latter you can often find in the chat box of an online poker room.
Sahamies first got into poker at age 15 when he reportedly hopped in a home game of another famous Finn, Patrik Antonius. From there, Sahamies began playing more and more live poker before transitioning into becoming an online phenom.
When it comes to Sahamies' online results, he's a cash game player, so there's not much to find. Still, Ziigmund is a fixture in the PokerNews Online Railbird Report, often winning or losing seven-figure sums.
As for his live game, Sahamies has $458,043 in live tournament earnings. His best year was in 2009. That year he recorded two big scores — the two largest of his live career. The first was in January when he took second in the Helsinki Freezeout Main Event for €125,126. The other was a sixth-place finish in the ￡20,000 EPT London High Roller for ￡74,000.
Sahamies will enter the final table bunched with with the five players all under 700,000 in chips. His stack sits at 685,000 to start the day and that puts him in fifth place on the leader board.